to say to all those uber-annoying radio announcers...

[Auntiestablishment]

1. I do not care what your name is. No doubt your mum is very proud, but the rest of us just want to hear the news/weather/next song not have to wait while someone announces their name as though it is far more important than any of those.

2. Full stops come at the end of sentences. Not in the middle. The same applies in spoken English.
   Do not leave massive gaps in. The middle of sentences and then leave no gaps at all between the end of the sentence and the next section so that it sounds like it was the Queen who scored a goal for Chelsea.

3. If you are doing the travel news and don't know the area because you're too lazy to have a little drive around before you start the job , ask someone how you pronounce the bloody place names before you start talking.

4. Just SHUT UP. Please. You think you're being so funny/clever. You're not.

5. tacking uber onto the front of a word is also very annoying.

- I thought it'd get more attention than just "very".

And, please can we have a t at the end of words. So many of them don't appear to be able to finish words nowadays.

And my real bugbear is that it's particularly not particaly - it has an additional U and L in it [and breathe].

YABU. You are clearly listening to the wrong radio.

ViviPru's Radio Route to Midnight:

Weekdays
Chris Evans R2
Shaun Keaveny 6m
Lauren Laverne 6m
Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie 6m
Richard Bacon 5L
Annie Mac R1 (Fridays only)
Nick Grimshaw R1 (on the iplayer from the previous night)

Saturdays
Nemone 6m
Richard Bacon 6m
Liz Kershaw 6m
Dermot O'Leary
Alan & Mel R2
Craig Charles 6m

BRING BACK ADAM & JOE!

Ooh, ViviPru - you might be right.
Chief culprits on my car radio at present are

• Classic FM (the name thing)
• Heart FM (the full stop thing)
• BBC local radio (the travel thing)
• Radio 4 (Just SHUT UP).

Hmm - if we're talking in the car you might have trouble with 6music and 5L unless you've got a DAB

solution - get an in car DAB

Can I just please add:

6. 'Next' means NEXT, not after the next thing.

When you say, "And next, we'll have the travel news." This means next, not AFTER you play Katy Perry singing California Gurls every bloody morning. Yes, I mean you Heart FM.

Oh ye gods I can't listen to heart any more.
(yikes. MNHQ disclaimers natch)

Oh yes Zuzu - next after the bloody adverts. I have got wise to them now. I change to another station. Ha! That'll show them.

Ooh! MNHQ posted on my thread.

Aaaargh. This morning Radio 3 got in on the act.

"That was Aquarium from Carnival. Of the Animals by Saint Saens."

No it bloody wasn't, it was from Carnival of the Animals. Idiots.

ViviPru are you me? That is almost exactly what I listen to with occasional excursions to R4.

LoveLoveLoveHueyAndCerysOnSundaysAsWellTiggaxx

Excellent taste there, Dawn! Sundays are a blur of 6 on the radio too - never too sure who is playing when though.

I indulge my inner raver on Fridays with Kissy Sellout on the iplayer from the night before too - blows away the cobwebs...

AuntieEstablishment - I noticed that too - but I thought he'd dropped his notes or something halfway through. It was decidedly bizarre.

And it was Petroc Trelawny who is normally one of the slightly less annoying variety (and doesn't announce his name self-importantly every 5 seconds).

Hope he's not been sent on a full-stops-in-the-middle-of-sentences course.

Petroc Trelawney is a bloody good Cornish name, it could only be bettered if he was called Janner, Hendra or Jago Trelawney!

WouldHaveCalledTheCubJagoButMrTiggaVetoedItThankGoodnessTiggaxx

I wish that all the guests on Radio 4 would stop saying the word 'absolutely'

I'm with Vivi...bring back Adam and Joe! Can't stand Richard Bacon, though, so my radio gets switched to R4 when he is on. I'm exclusively 6 Music apart from that, though.

What to listen to in the car is much more of a dilemma, though - only recently got a car and already we're sick of XFM, Absolute, etc. If it's not Radio 4 we plug in an iPod...perhaps we're not quite ready for R2 yet?

Stephen!

Just coming!

hiddenhome - absolutely.

I hadn't noticed that. Now it will annoy me for ever.

Maybe you SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE

I'm going to put a plug in for my friend Peter Donaldson. What that man can do to the Radio 4 news is pure magic.

"Heart. More music variety"

What a load of cack. Having done a job which involved long days driving, I can confirm that there is no variety as all. Just 20 songs on repeat play all day long.

Radio Presenter. Not announcer. DH is a radio presenter and just asked me if I would clear that up :)